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US
/ɪkˌstɝməˈneɪʃən/
]
[ UK /ɛkstˈɜːmɪnˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɛkstˈɜːmɪnˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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complete annihilation
they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs - the act of exterminating
How To Use extermination In A Sentence
- Regrouping in camps diminishes resistance, facilitates extermination and makes it possible to camouflage it, to give it the appearance of a natural death.
- You will decide whether you will assume responsibility for the extermination of all voices of dissent.
- In question is no longer ‘merely’ the extermination of countless humans, but of the work of readaptation which can be undertaken on the very basis of the human.
- The dodo is the tragic symbol of bird extermination. Birds arrived comparatively late
- Five lions abandoned in a defunct zoo faced imminent extermination until a local veterinarian called on an international animal rescue group to step in.
- He much enjoyed listening to the accounts given by travellers of the scenes, animals and plants and native life they had seen, and deplored the so-called civilising of the natives, which, in his opinion, generally meant their exploitation by Europeans, leading to their deterioration and extermination. Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences
- The hamsters are very fierce little creatures: constantly fighting with other quadrupeds, and even among themselves; but the polecat is their master and tyrant, and carries on a war of extermination against them -- following them through the intricate ways of their burrows, and destroying them even in their dens! Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
- Here the logic of the social reaches its limit – the point where it inverts its finalities and reaches its point of inertia and extermination, but at the same time approaches ecstasy. Archive 2008-11-01
- Humankind has caused the extermination of the rainforests.
- The principal reasons of their disappearance were extermination of predators and their prey and habitat destruction.